Netbooks were small, weak Windows laptops costing a couple hundred dollars. That market is very healthy, although it partly moved to 2-in-1's. You can find lots of such products on Chinese stores like Gear Best.
This, on the other hand, is a palmtop. These were small PDA's (remember those) with keyboards. The Psion Series 5MX was one of the best, but there were several Windows CE ones.
This will certainly have an appeal for those (like me) who remember the 5MX fondly, so thanks for posting about it, even with the completely misleading title. I feel that there's less need for palmtops today, given netbooks and keyboard cases for tablets, but I did a lot of story editing on the 5MX, and I'm sure that some people would still find use for a small 400g device with a decent keyboard over the alternatives.
Netflix might have a lot of content is a few countries, but has little content in most countries. The choice ends up being either not to watch or to pirate. There's no real damage to the industry in such cases.
If software could run just as well on any OS, even though it's vastly different, it would mean that the magic is serious enough to negate any kernel and driver differences, which in turn would mean that algorithms and bugs don't matter, which will lead to the total collapse of the software industry as we know it. It will be replaced by something magical, with no need for software developers or researchers. In fact, the entire world will probably change as a result of such magical discovery, and send the entire technological industry into upheaval.
There have been many breakthroughs in the PC industry, incredibly clever inventions which allowed things to move forward. And that's the thing, the smartest things in the industry don't make for a huge processing leap, they enable making progress at all. Each of these developments take years. Ideas may be simple, but implementing them, especially at the level required for mass production, is hard. Each development also requires more accurate tools. Also, complexity is now so high, that, as imgod2u said, even a huge change in some part leads to an overall small change.
So as others have said, physics, but I think the above is a more nuanced answer. I remember when people said that it wouldn't be possible to make transistors under a micron in size. The very fact that we've reached so far is miraculous.
I've been working in software development for about 30 years, and I've never solved a single riddle. I'd bet that 99.99999% (and I'm being generous) of all software developers have never solved a single riddle as part of their work. I solved a lot of problems, developed algorithms, designed, analysed and optimised systems, but never encountered riddles.
Riddles are questions with simple answers which are deliberately obscure. They are rarely encountered in constructing something that requires rigorous thought and creativity, which is what software development is.
Replacing workers with robots reduces costs and increases profits, which are taxed. If governments reduced the amount of tax holes in their laws, they'd even get these taxes. If they don't, the big corporations would still manage to avoid the new tax while the little companies who want some automation will suffer.
Conferences like GDC can teach you a lot about various aspects of your trade you didn't even know mattered. Other conferences are researchers telling what they're doing. Other conferences are for companies to sell you on their latest tech and dev tools. While benefits such as networking and taking time off work are true to all of them, each of these types are different in other value they provide and highly depends on what you do in your work and what you're interested in.
A lot fewer people programmed then, and a lot fewer people used what they programmed. These days by spending about $300 (less, if you make an effort to go cheap) you own a laptop and all the development tools needed to develop and distribute apps to an audience of a billion people.
I think that the "PC is dying" claim is based on the slowing of the market. Fewer PC's are being sold. That doesn't mean thought that fewer people are using PC's, just that they're buying new PC's less often. That said, research does show that for many people their phones are their main, or only, computer, so yes, to get to them you need to go through a few hoops.
That said, I see the InfoWorld article as pure fear-mongering. The market for software is so much larger and it's so much easier to get to people than in the days of floppy disk distribution, which InfoWorld sees as the 'good old days'.
Couldn't find an exact figure, but this got me an approximate figure.
Which goes to show that tons of people don't mind going through minor hoops to get into the app store.
Does the OP have any proof that "Fewer people have the opportunity to write code and share it"? If anything, it's easy these days to get a professional development environment for pretty much any programming task, be it a pro version of Visual Studio for free or a free professional game engine. And people use them, as is evidenced for example by the huge growth in the number of PC and mobile games being published. Not to mention that consoles are a lot more open than they were in the past, with lots of indie games being available, and a normal Xbox One can be used for console development.
So even disregarding the sensationalist "PC is dead" angle, I feel that pretty much everything in the OP is not only unsubstantiated, but the opposite of the truth.
Given the relative sizes of CPU's and GPU's, it makes sense that an 'APU' will be a GPU with a bundled CPU, rather than the other way round. Having a large address space is one requirement for doing virtual memory on a card.
It's been shown the gay men's brain activity change when they become parents, matching in some ways changes in mothers' brains, and they definitely don't go through a pregnancy.
The researchers could have compared to brains of women who got babies via a surrogate mother, which would have been more interesting, but they chose instead to compare to groups which obviously won't have relevant changes.
Also, they looked at scans only before and after the pregnancy, which makes this research quite useless in determining changes during pregnancy. It could be that these changes occur at or near birth.
All in all, looks to me like a waste of research money.
No, you're on a site whose byline is "political news for American nerds; stuff that doesn't matter to most people yet to everyone's annoyance gets to the front page".
It was already rumoured in the past that Apple was planning to switch to ARM for Macs. That would imply similar emulation. That said, it likely won't mean opening iOS.
I believe press releases (particularly when coupled with demos) a lot more than I believe random people on the internet. That's applying critical thinking.
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Microsoft is obviously the way to go for long term support.
Well, they don't get the money yet. They'd get rich in the end, sure, but at least consumers might get something too, thanks to this judge.
Yes, a live action Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles would be cool.
Netbooks were small, weak Windows laptops costing a couple hundred dollars. That market is very healthy, although it partly moved to 2-in-1's. You can find lots of such products on Chinese stores like Gear Best.
This, on the other hand, is a palmtop. These were small PDA's (remember those) with keyboards. The Psion Series 5MX was one of the best, but there were several Windows CE ones.
This will certainly have an appeal for those (like me) who remember the 5MX fondly, so thanks for posting about it, even with the completely misleading title. I feel that there's less need for palmtops today, given netbooks and keyboard cases for tablets, but I did a lot of story editing on the 5MX, and I'm sure that some people would still find use for a small 400g device with a decent keyboard over the alternatives.
Netflix might have a lot of content is a few countries, but has little content in most countries. The choice ends up being either not to watch or to pirate. There's no real damage to the industry in such cases.
If software could run just as well on any OS, even though it's vastly different, it would mean that the magic is serious enough to negate any kernel and driver differences, which in turn would mean that algorithms and bugs don't matter, which will lead to the total collapse of the software industry as we know it. It will be replaced by something magical, with no need for software developers or researchers. In fact, the entire world will probably change as a result of such magical discovery, and send the entire technological industry into upheaval.
There have been many breakthroughs in the PC industry, incredibly clever inventions which allowed things to move forward. And that's the thing, the smartest things in the industry don't make for a huge processing leap, they enable making progress at all. Each of these developments take years. Ideas may be simple, but implementing them, especially at the level required for mass production, is hard. Each development also requires more accurate tools. Also, complexity is now so high, that, as imgod2u said, even a huge change in some part leads to an overall small change.
So as others have said, physics, but I think the above is a more nuanced answer. I remember when people said that it wouldn't be possible to make transistors under a micron in size. The very fact that we've reached so far is miraculous.
I've been working in software development for about 30 years, and I've never solved a single riddle. I'd bet that 99.99999% (and I'm being generous) of all software developers have never solved a single riddle as part of their work. I solved a lot of problems, developed algorithms, designed, analysed and optimised systems, but never encountered riddles.
Riddles are questions with simple answers which are deliberately obscure. They are rarely encountered in constructing something that requires rigorous thought and creativity, which is what software development is.
Replacing workers with robots reduces costs and increases profits, which are taxed. If governments reduced the amount of tax holes in their laws, they'd even get these taxes. If they don't, the big corporations would still manage to avoid the new tax while the little companies who want some automation will suffer.
Currency conversion and higher seller fees for selling outside the US. Getting with the Trump in crowd?
Nuclear explosions on the moon... Inherit the Stars explains it well. :)
Guilty as charged. :) Anyway, it implies that these people could get into the US, which mean no ban. So this is positive news.
I don't remember either. Probably in the millions.
Conferences like GDC can teach you a lot about various aspects of your trade you didn't even know mattered. Other conferences are researchers telling what they're doing. Other conferences are for companies to sell you on their latest tech and dev tools. While benefits such as networking and taking time off work are true to all of them, each of these types are different in other value they provide and highly depends on what you do in your work and what you're interested in.
A lot fewer people programmed then, and a lot fewer people used what they programmed. These days by spending about $300 (less, if you make an effort to go cheap) you own a laptop and all the development tools needed to develop and distribute apps to an audience of a billion people.
I think that the "PC is dying" claim is based on the slowing of the market. Fewer PC's are being sold. That doesn't mean thought that fewer people are using PC's, just that they're buying new PC's less often. That said, research does show that for many people their phones are their main, or only, computer, so yes, to get to them you need to go through a few hoops.
That said, I see the InfoWorld article as pure fear-mongering. The market for software is so much larger and it's so much easier to get to people than in the days of floppy disk distribution, which InfoWorld sees as the 'good old days'.
Couldn't find an exact figure, but this got me an approximate figure.
Which goes to show that tons of people don't mind going through minor hoops to get into the app store.
Does the OP have any proof that "Fewer people have the opportunity to write code and share it"? If anything, it's easy these days to get a professional development environment for pretty much any programming task, be it a pro version of Visual Studio for free or a free professional game engine. And people use them, as is evidenced for example by the huge growth in the number of PC and mobile games being published. Not to mention that consoles are a lot more open than they were in the past, with lots of indie games being available, and a normal Xbox One can be used for console development.
So even disregarding the sensationalist "PC is dead" angle, I feel that pretty much everything in the OP is not only unsubstantiated, but the opposite of the truth.
Given the relative sizes of CPU's and GPU's, it makes sense that an 'APU' will be a GPU with a bundled CPU, rather than the other way round. Having a large address space is one requirement for doing virtual memory on a card.
No longer news for nerds, it's just mainly a generic site where political and "OMG big corporations are fucking us" posts are the highlights.
It's been shown the gay men's brain activity change when they become parents, matching in some ways changes in mothers' brains, and they definitely don't go through a pregnancy.
The researchers could have compared to brains of women who got babies via a surrogate mother, which would have been more interesting, but they chose instead to compare to groups which obviously won't have relevant changes.
Also, they looked at scans only before and after the pregnancy, which makes this research quite useless in determining changes during pregnancy. It could be that these changes occur at or near birth.
All in all, looks to me like a waste of research money.
No, you're on a site whose byline is "political news for American nerds; stuff that doesn't matter to most people yet to everyone's annoyance gets to the front page".
It was already rumoured in the past that Apple was planning to switch to ARM for Macs. That would imply similar emulation. That said, it likely won't mean opening iOS.
I believe press releases (particularly when coupled with demos) a lot more than I believe random people on the internet. That's applying critical thinking.
My feed showed 'Nearly 40% of Americans Would Give Up Sex For Better Online ...'.
I don't have anything interesting to add as a comment, but I'm happy that this news made it to the front page. Thanks for submitting it.